-- Thank you so much for the write-up about the couple from Montgomery nearing 70 years of marriage. It is so nice to hear something like that, when we have all these crimes and violence going on in the world.

Police need better pay

-- You know it is pretty bad for a Mobile police officer to put his life on the line to get free rent for him and his girlfriend. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe these benefits officers receive off-duty and that whole system should be examined, or Sam Jones, pay them more.

Weapons OK for off-duty cops

-- The comment in the paper this morning about stricter gun laws is wrong. Brandon Sigler was carrying a gun because off-duty policemen frequently carry them. They are licensed to do so, they have a permit. The other guy, Hollingsworth, didn’t have a permit and was carrying his gun illegally. There is already a law on the books to cover that.

Don’t let ’em take your guns

-- Watching the poor Egyptians trying to address their government is just sad to watch. That is why Americans, that our forefathers, put an amendment in our Constitution allowing us to have guns, primarily to protect us from our government. We must never give up that right.

Just asking for trouble

-- About cutting the freshman cheerleading, MCPSS already went through one Title 9 lawsuit, and it seems like they would’ve learned their lesson. Why are they cutting freshman girls out? I guess they didn’t learn their lesson in the first lawsuit.

Blame the recession

-- I have a message for all those bellyaching about not getting their claims paid by BP: We are a national recession. That is why your businesses fell off. Businesses fell off across the country.

Walk the walk, guys

-- Congressmen don’t like the Office of Congressional Ethics? I’m absolutely shocked. I thought all these politicians were all about ethics and doing the right thing.

Plenty of reasons to honk

-- If I didn’t honk my horn, you would’ve backed right into me. If I didn’t honk my horn, you would’ve changed lanes and plowed right into me. If I didn’t honk my horn, you would’ve turned right into me because of your lack of judgment and timing. That’s why I honk my horn.

Wanted Senior Bowl broadcast

-- Hey out there, this could be your aunt, uncle or grandma and grandpa. Some of us can’t go out like you, but we would love to have seen the Senior Bowl. But if you didn’t have access to the cable channel, the live coverage was nonexistent. We couldn’t even hear it on the radio.

Commercials lacked audio

-- I sure hope the Mobile ads that were shown with the Senior Bowl had audio for the rest of the country, because it didn’t have it here. Someone should’ve corrected that.

Remove Christmas decorations

-- I was driving down Government Street on Saturday and noticed we still have our Christmas banners up. What must our neighbors, our visitors think of us? Do we not have Senior Bowl banners? Do we not have Mardi Gras banners? Shame on you for leaving the “Seasons Greetings” banners up so long.

Sentence was too light

-- I am an 82-year-old lady who wants to call the sound off about this paralyzed man videotaping this 11-year-old girl. Advisory guidelines call for 24 years, and the judge is going to let him off for less than that, he ought to get life.

Sounds like self-defense

-- About this black bear killing, if that 16-year-old is telling the truth about the bear getting in the house, what was he supposed to do, let him in the house and maybe get mauled? Then maybe after the child is mauled, then you kill the bear? I don’t think so.

Beware friend requests

-- Facebook can be a lot of fun, if you can control who your friends are, and keep the troublemakers off your page and out of your business. I’m really careful, but a few months ago I had a woman harassing me on Facebook, so I put a stop to it. I’m not going to be harassed over petty jealousy.